Eager to resolve a federal civil rights lawsuit, Texas' most populous county over the past two years has stopped requiring most people accused of low-level crimes from putting up cash to get out of ...

A Houston man on Friday pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud charges and admitted he recruited friends, family and strangers to sign falsified paperwork to help get criminal suspects out ...

Regarding “Paxton's attack on Harris County bail reform is for Trump — not for us,” (Sept. 3): I support virtually all of what Lisa Falkenberg says about Ken Paxton and his war on the ODonnell Consent ...

With Prop. 3, voters approved a higher bar for pretrial detention. But improper implementation could mean thousands more ...

A federal judge has granted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton a key win, allowing him to intervene in a lawsuit that produced the 2019 Harris County misdemeanor bail reform consent decree. "The ...

Harris County's controversial cash bail system will face new scrutiny Tuesday before a federal appeals court as judges consider whether it violates the constitutional rights of defendants who can't ...